Klopek? What is that Slavic?

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Where is the surname Klopek from? I haven't been able to find an answer anywhere. I was getting curious...

By the look of Hans' clothes, I was thinking German. What really got me thinking was Hans' hat at the end of the movie (Sorry, I don't have a picture.).

Is this a stupid question, as in it's really obvious? *he he*
 
Being from Germany I can only say that their first names (especially Hans and Werner) are typical German names.

However, I never met a Klopek in my life. And I just checked the German telephone book: There is no Klopek.

But sometimes I believe Dana Olsen had Germans in his mind while writing The Burbs (propably even unconscious). Werner Klopek may be somehow connected to the German Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. And in the scene when they all enter the Klopeks house Reuben stomps his feet in a military way.

So I don't know: German? Slavic? Something else?
 
I never would of noticed Rueben stomping his feet! So I guess they were suppose to be a German family, thanks for the input.

I tried bugging my Grandma Hinkle for an answer but I think she's choosing to ignore me. She has too many grandkids! :p
 
Mengele is who I think of when I see Werner, not much of a physical resemblance but philosophical perhaps. He is certainly old enough (although barely) to have been tutored by Mengele. I would defer judgment to Ray on the issue of whether they could be German.
 
I think there's undoubtedly a Germanic influence. Dr Klopek definitely - clicking his heels etc... - and Hans' clothes at the end. But I feel there's a cross pollination of Eastern-Europe too. So yeah, maybe Slavic. The Kopek or Kopeck, is a Russian currency...

Did you know there's a band called Klopek. Check this paragraph out:

"If you were to ask a random person what the word Klopek meant to them, you’d probably get one of three responses. First, he might say that it means nothing to him. If he were an educated person he would say that it is a name of Slavic origin. Lastly, he just might say that it is one of the most promising and talented bands to ever come out of Dallas. And he would be right."
 
<span class="postlistquotedtext"><blockquote>quote:<center><hr width="100%"/></center>Art Weingartner wrote:

I think there's undoubtedly a Germanic influence. Dr Klopek definitely - clicking his heels etc... - and Hans' clothes at the end. But I feel there's a cross pollination of Eastern-Europe too. So yeah, maybe Slavic. The Kopek or Kopeck, is a Russian currency...

Did you know there's a band called Klopek. Check this paragraph out:

"If you were to ask a random person what the word Klopek meant to them, you’d probably get one of three responses. First, he might say that it means nothing to him. If he were an educated person he would say that it is a name of Slavic origin. Lastly, he just might say that it is one of the most promising and talented bands to ever come out of Dallas. And he would be right."
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bastards! they forgot the burbs. grrrr
 
That's funny, although it's not my kind of music.
 
Everything about the Klopek family screams german. Uncle Reuben and Dr Werner Klopek seemed to be something along the lines of nazi war criminals
 
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